Criminal Behaviour - Description

Question 1

What is crime?

Answer 1

Defined as any act or lack of acting that violates the law and results in punishment by the state.

Question 2

What are criminal behaviours?

Answer 2

A social construct as they rely on the laws in each society and the social context in which the behaviour takes place

Question 3

What did Farr & Gibbons (1990) suggest?

Answer 3

There are seven categories for different types of crime two of which are:
1. property predatory crime
2. Interpersonal violence general

Question 4

What is property predatory crime?

Answer 4

Persons are involved in attempting to or actually taking the personal property of others without permission

Question 5

What is interpersonal violence general?

Answer 5

Persons are involved in actions that threaten or cause actual personal harm

Question 6

What did Cherie Griffiths (2014) aim to do?

Answer 6

summarise the key characteristics of different types of offenders.

Question 7

What are the characteristics of disorganised murderers?

Answer 7

• Below average IQ
• Possibly a highschool drop out
• Socially inadequate
• Live alone
• Often unskilled worker/labourer
• Low birth order status

Question 8

What are the characteristics of organised murders?

Answer 8

• Above average/high IQ
• Follow the media
• Socially adequate
• Tend to live with a partner and are sexually competent
• High birth order status
• Often described as ‘charming’

Question 9

What are the characteristics of acquisitive criminals?

Answer 9

• Pleasure/thrill seeking
• Sometimes have a formal motivation
• May be motivated by intelligence or economic reasons